Heh. Funny little thought, but what the heck. I was just telling Foul about Bach's
Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin. With a single violin, he wrote this
outrageous music with multiple parts; melodies against themselves; melodies with traditional harmonies; repeating harmonic patterns hidden inside different melodies; implied harmonics... It staggers the mind! And when you listen, you can hear how the violin works, its abilities, and how everything it's capable of doing is stretched to the limit to make this music. I heard the biggest one of these pieces played on a piano once. It was a mockery! The piano can play all that Bach wrote - and all that he implied! - in these pieces, with almost no effort. The fire that the violin's physical characteristics give this music was lost.
Anyway, it reminds me of
Lord Mhoram's Victory:
Now the only thing which limited his might was his staff itself. That wood had been shaped by people who had not understood Kevin's Lore; it was not formed to bear the force he now sent blazing through it. But he had no margin for caution. He made the staff surpass itself, sent it bucking and crackling with power to rage against his assailants. His flame grew incandescent, furnace-hot; in brilliance and coruscation it sliced through his foes like a scythe of sun-fire.
Bach said, "Here's the violin music I want. The violin can't do this? Too bad, it will have to."
) 
I'll have to look for that one, it sounds great.
Hey, I love Bach, too!
heh heh